Trap Receipts? Rules Wizard

[Dan Williams]

I'm trying to make "Read" Receipt e-mails be less annoying.

Can you get the Rules Wizard to detect them?

I've tried checking for the text "was read on" in the body, but I guess
the body of a Receipt is not treated as a real e-mail body. Same with
"Read:" in the Subject (which I already expected, since Outlook
alphabetizes them as if "Read:" were not there).

The best idea I've thought of so far for making them less intrusive, in
addition to putting them in another folder (which I already do), is to
play a sound when all the regular e-mails arrive, but for Receipts play
a sound that is silence [silence.wav], so they won't make any
mail-arrival sound. If only I could tell which e-mails were the
Receipts! Currently, no matter what I do in the Rules Wizard, the
Receipts play the regular sound.

This is Outlook 2000 with Windows 2000.

I use VBA in Excel and Word, but I don't know any of the
Outlook-specific commands, so a non-VBA solution would be preferred.

Dan Williams
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[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

If they are so annoying, why request them? Also, moving returned receipts
means they won't track with the sent message.

For subject - does outlook 2000 have a criteria for 'header contains' ? if
so, use Read: and Unread: as the condition.


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[Noel All]

See if putting "Read:" without the quotes in the subject line helps

 

[Dan Williams]

Yes, 'header contains' works -- thanks!
Dan

P.S. To answer your question, you're right, I really don't want
Receipts at all, but I DO want Tracking (the Tracking tab on each Sent
message). Are you saying I can get Tracking without the pesky Receipts?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

P.S. To answer your question, you're right, I really don't want

Receipts at all, but I DO want Tracking (the Tracking tab on each Sent
message). Are you saying I can get Tracking without the pesky Receipts?

No... but when a receipt is returned, the tracking tab updates with the read
status. But if the receipts are moved, they won't process and be included on
the tracking tab.

 

[Dan Williams]

Hmm, I spoke too soon. Testing for Read: in the Header IS working when
I try it on test Receipts I get by sending e-mails to myself, but when
the Receipts come from anyone else, they don't get detected.

Any thoughts about why this doesn't work, or another approach?

Dan

 

[Dan Williams]

I'll ask again.

Is there any way to trap Receipts?

My newest plan is to use the Rules Wizard to ring a tone, and to make
Receipts an exception so that the tone won't ring for them.

I can't figure out a way for the Rules Wizard to detect that a message
is a Receipt.

Diane suggested testing for Read: in "header contains". That does not
work. (Oddly, it DOES work for Receipts that appear when I send test
messages to myself.)

Any more ideas, anyone?

Dan

 

[Dan Williams]

(Actually, I don't think it works for the sending-to-myself situation
either. I was mistaken.)